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I found the original not plausible but I enjoyed it anyways. One of my favorite Patrick Swayze movies and C. Thomas Howell's character became one of my favorites. I just don't see how a remake using North Korea as the invader will be all that compelling. If you go and see it, post your thoughts on it and maybe I won't wait for it to hit Netflix.

“Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.”
G. K. Chesterton

That's my biggest beef with it as well FlaGator. Even with Chinese backing and strange new EMP technology, N. Korea would never get into the NW US, let alone hold it. As a member of the military, I just wouldn't be able to get around that major plot hurdle.

Or... maybe this is after Obama is done gutting our Navy.

In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.

In hockey, it means you have to sit in the penalty box for five minutes.

Somehow the NK have a device that knocks out power, while this might happen I dont see how'd they'd get an army of any note here. I wished they'd had used China as a antagonist but we mustn't offend our owners.

They filmed a lot of scenes around Detroit for the remake. A lot of it was filmed in Pontiac, which has an empty mall and other useful buildings for movies. Some of the scenes were filmed in Detroit, including the Del Ray neighborhood by the Ambassador Bridge, which is a really abandoned part of town.

I found the original not plausible but I enjoyed it anyways. One of my favorite Patrick Swayze movies and C. Thomas Howell's character became one of my favorites. I just don't see how a remake using North Korea as the invader will be all that compelling. If you go and see it, post your thoughts on it and maybe I won't wait for it to hit Netflix.

While finding the original totally lacking in reality, it was a good flick. So I'll bypass the nakeover as the second runs never have the zing of the first.

It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi

Originally Posted by Carol

When I judge someone's integrity one key thing I look at is - How does s/he treat people s/he doesn't agree with or does not like?
I can respect someone who I do not agree with, but I have NO respect for someone who puts others down in a public forum. That is the hallmark of someone who has no integrity, and cannot be trusted.

That's my biggest beef with it as well FlaGator. Even with Chinese backing and strange new EMP technology, N. Korea would never get into the NW US, let alone hold it. As a member of the military, I just wouldn't be able to get around that major plot hurdle.

Or... maybe this is after Obama is done gutting our Navy.

After that, Lichtenstein will be a threat.

Originally Posted by noonwitch

They filmed a lot of scenes around Detroit for the remake. A lot of it was filmed in Pontiac, which has an empty mall and other useful buildings for movies. Some of the scenes were filmed in Detroit, including the Del Ray neighborhood by the Ambassador Bridge, which is a really abandoned part of town.

Makes sense. Detroit can pass for any postwar locale. Throw up signs in German and you have Dresden after the firebombing. Japanese and you have Hiroshima.